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welcome to cnet's inside scoop i'm charlie cooper and i'm here with my colleague from cnet news com josh lowensohn it's been called the trial the patent trial of the century which given the fact we're only twelve years into the century might be a little bit of Silicon Valley hype but it's apple vs samsung and you've been following it now Josh for the what will be the first two weeks of scheduled four-week trial more or less correct and it's too early to say who's ahead on points but do you have a feel for what's been the biggest surprise to date sure so far it's really just been this avalanche of evidence that Apple's unveiled a wolf on their part and on samsung and that includes internal product designs and really points that that samsung was looking at Apple devices to kind of feel what it wanted to do with the next up two or three phones that they're working on and Samsung's just to recap Samsung is defending itself from charges apple claims that Samsung basically ripped off their ideas to produce their I their iPhone knock off to their smartphones and their tablets and of course this is going to be going to a jury we're not talking about a judge it's a jury these old layman who presumably aren't experts in the ins and outs of Technology when you folks are sitting there watching the jury listened to testimony you have a feel as to whether or not they really getting it I think the arguments they understand or that Apple thinks that Samsung copied technology that includes early iPhone and early iPad designs at the thing I don't think juries get are the real nitty-gritty parts of patent law things like whether designs look alike or whether you get this look and feel on devices and how far the law protects that those are really complicated matters that are very suffocating out with simple terms what's Apple's basic argument they just saying look here is design a and here's their design you can see the difference that's exactly how they're doing it they're basically taking Samsung's devices before the iPhone the iPad and showing afterwards and just trying to paint this picture that without the iPhone the iPad these could have never had it okay and as far as for the boys and girls in the press box and the bloggers give us a sense of what it's like to watch the proceedings are they buying the arguments of one side versus the other or are they treating it all as well it's all a bunch of baloney well the beginning of the trial is really exciting because Apple brought up these really kind of super strong witnesses they brought out people in charge of the creation the iphone they brought in markers they brought in designers it's really kind of shifting more towards a patent trial now to where we're getting and sort of the really depths of the argument for the the jury they've actually they were almost worn to get some caffeine the other day because they were kind of falling asleep I mean it's getting really complicated this is the stage of the trial where your eyes roll in the back of your head exactly with another couple of weeks left in the trial what should we look forward to we really can expect that Samsung is going to attack back so far the trials really been Apple attacking them with a bunch of evidence and a bunch of expert witnesses and Samsung has played defense as much as they can they really get to hey more after apple with a couple of their own patents and a couple of their own arguments that they haven't really had the chance to articulate in full good stuff will be looking forward to your reports thanks Josh for cnet's inside scoop I'm Charlie Cooper